Charlie Hilton-Balfe

Trainee Patent Attorney

BSc

Charlie’s broad experience in intellectual property, background in physics and commercial awareness helps ensure their clients receive sensible and effective protection for their inventions.

Charlie works with a variety of clients of different sizes. They are particularly interested in clean and green technologies.

In addition to patent drafting and prosecution, Charlie enjoys applying their knowledge of IP to help clients solve problems and develop pragmatic IP strategies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN PATENTS:

• Additive manufacturing/3D printing
• Artificial intelligence
• Civil engineering
• Clean technology
• Construction
• Consumer products
• Control systems
• Heat pumps and heat engines
• Image processing (e.g. MRI)
• Machine learning
• Optics
• Thermodynamics